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What 'decriminalise' really means is: we're giving junkies a drug den next door to you

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It will not be long before your home town has special places where drug abusers can poke or snort poison into their bodies. These will be legal and paid for by you and me.

It is a stupid idea, of course. People who take such drugs are selfish parasites in need of deterrence, not patients in need of treatment.

The nicer we are to them, the more of them there will be, as we have proved conclusively over the past four decades.

Brighton has unveiled plans to introduce 'drug consumption' rooms in the city

But it is getting harder every day to express this opinion, and soon it will be more or less impossible. The British liberal establishment have decided to surrender to the powerful and well-funded lobby that wants to ‘decriminalise’ drugs.

They use this clumsy word because international treaties prevent us from actually legalising them. Instead, we just reduce the penalties to nothing (or don’t enforce them) and make them legal in all but name.

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Before they can get away with this loathsome scheme, they have to brainwash the public into accepting it.

That is why the unpopular newspapers and the BBC have been giving favourable coverage to a plan for ‘drug consumption rooms’ in Brighton. It is also why Portugal’s abandonment of serious drug laws is constantly presented in a kindly light by the establishment media.

 Many of you will have been brainwashed yourselves. Do you know how many supposedly ‘conservative’ newspapers endorsed the decriminalisation of cannabis years ago?

It is amazing how many otherwise sensible people have already been fooled into accepting the dud arguments for relaxing the law against cannabis, one of the most dangerous drugs in existence.

Your children, too, will have been brainwashed at school – where they will have absorbed the moronic argument that because alcohol and tobacco are legal, it is wrong to have laws against dope.

Whenever I have the chance to debate this subject properly, I almost always defeat the drug liberalisers.

But that’s the problem. The debate has been shut down, because the liberals control it. Only one side is allowed to be heard. TV and radio won’t let me talk about this.

My recent book, showing that the supposed ‘war on drugs’ was abandoned 40 years ago, and that claims of stern ‘prohibition’ are propaganda drivel, was simply not reviewed by most national papers or on the broadcast programmes that discuss such things.

It is not yet too late to stop this process, but a great deal of vigilance will be needed to do so. Otherwise you may wake up one day soon and find a building near you is being openly used by junkies to inject themselves, with police approval.

This is all the warning you will get.

Will lovely Imogen's name strike the wrong chord?

One of the many joys of the fine new film A Late Quartet (disgracefully hard to find in cinemas) is the lovely and talented actress Imogen Poots.

My only worry is this: will her career be held back by her charming but unusual surname?

Marilyn Monroe, for instance, started life as Norma Mortenson, Jean Harlow was Harlean Carpenter, and Greta Garbo was Greta Lovisa Gustafsson.

Imogen Poots in A Late Quartet

 

I got into North Korea by dancing (very badly) with the lovely female staff of the North Korean consulate in Shenyang, China.

This was the final stage of a hilarious obstacle course of cash payments and weird encounters. My mobile telephone, which I had to hand in before entering the Hermit Kingdom, has never recovered and is still haunted, doing things it ought not to.

I don’t claim, like the BBC’s John Sweeney, to have uncovered any great new truths while there.

My main discovery was that a lot of North Koreans (and is it any wonder?) are hopelessly drunk most of the time.

I think we should all take this sad country’s threats a lot less seriously.

The picture of female soldiers tripping along in high heels rather sums up the strange mixture of comedy and misery involved.

 

Some weeks ago, on the BBC Question Time programme, Lord Heseltine claimed before a large audience that I had called young soldiers ‘stupid’. I had not done so, as the record shows.

I protested at the time. He did not withdraw. I wrote to him explaining in detail why I would never have said such a thing. I asked him, twice, to set the record straight. He has twice declined.

Well, I would point out that his headed writing paper takes care to mention that he is the Right Honourable Lord Heseltine, and that he is a Companion of Honour, an order whose motto is ‘In action faithful and in honour clear’.

Well, is this behaviour faithful, honourable – or clear? Or are these chivalric titles just baubles of no account?

How sad, if so. I still hope he will do the decent thing. It seems to me to be a matter of honour.

 How strange to see people applauding at Lady Thatcher’s funeral. What odd, un-British behaviour.

But how enjoyable to see the police compelled to wear proper tunics, and to see the Church of England forced to use the Prayer Book and the Authorised Version of the Bible, which it has spitefully stamped out in normal worship.

But these things were the last flickers of an older England, not a new beginning. Wait and see what happens next time.

  A nasty outbreak of intolerance

The Left-wing media and their internet allies continue to make much of the outbreak of measles in Swansea.

This seems to be turning into an attack on free speech and on a free press.

Particular rage is being directed against conservative newspapers which gave prominence to claims – since discredited – that the MMR vaccination was linked to autism.

The claims were originally published  in The Lancet, a highly respected and  well-established medical journal. It was perfectly reasonable for newspapers to take them seriously.

The doubts were shared by Private Eye, a far-from-conservative satirical magazine with a reputation for tough, sceptical  investigative reporting. Whistleblowers are sometimes wrong but often right.

Governments are often wrong, and secretive about their mistakes. Who can be sure who is correct on such matters, at the time? What if the warnings had turned out to be justified? Those who had sought to play them down would now look foolish. 

Beware of this nasty mixture of intolerance mixed with hindsight.

And as for the measles outbreak, if the NHS had continued to offer the choice of single jabs to  worried parents, rather than forcing them to choose between MMR or nothing, it is very likely that this would have been avoided.

 CAN’T TV programme-makers try a bit harder to recreate the past? I lived in Oxford in the mid-Sixties, the period in which ITV’s new detective drama Endeavour is supposed to be set.

I understand that the shabby, tourist-free city of those days – with its steamy cattle-market, pungent brewery and busy factories, cannot be recreated.

But nobody wrote the figure seven in the continental style (with a horizontal line through the middle). Nobody took ‘medication’ (it was called ‘medicine’), or said ‘there you go’. Women didn’t wear pearls while pinning washing on the line. And the Vicar was the Rev John Blenkinsop, or Mr Blenkinsop. He was never, ever Reverend Blenkinsop, a stupid, ignorant Americanism nearly as bad as ‘bored of’, ‘can I get?’, and ‘train station’.

 

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